It's time to call these end-of-the-world anti-AI messaging groups exactly what they are: Terror cells - They funnel and wash money from a few donors to smaller groups to obscure origin - insert sleeper cells into orgs (the best recent example is Jacob, the young man who quit yesterday and created a social media firestorm, has practically no resume and took 20K from these groups while working at Anthropic. He quit this company, which is probably the most dedicated safety AI group in the world, while calling it "dangerous" with a straight face, for a grand total two month, had no social following and suddenly gets retweeted to 100M views by various cells working together behind the scenes to pump and promote and manipulate the public and regulators.) - these groups produce streams of propaganda designed to terrify the populace, such as reports, push polls, articles in magazines and newspapers, podcasts, as well as direct funding of videos deliberately designed to terrorize children about AI in YouTube - pay influencers to produce anti-AI terror messaging - Inspire and produce splinter cells, like the Zizians, a cult splinter group from the San Francisco Bay Area rationalist community, that committed a double homicide in Pennsylvania, knife attacked several people in California, and a got in a shootout with a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont - they openly call for violence on social media and in private groups with calls for "Butelarian Jihad" a reference to Dune which took its inspiration from the violent Arab uprisings and holy wars - act quasi-independely but coordinate attacks - use timed campaigns to manipulate social media - one of its members threw a firebomb at Sam Altman's house in an attempted murder - another shot up a judge's house because he voted in favor of a data center - several of its members call openly for more violence on social media In a time when many people are looking at these folks as if they're exposing real risk instead of what it actually is, which is a delusional, nonsensical, imaginary risk, it's time to get clear about where these fake risks are coming from and why. The burden of proof for proving that a technology currently used by billions of people happily, with practically no serious incidents (by comparison lawn mowers are a bigger menace to society), should be on them. They need to provide more than bald and bold assertions with no supporting evidence for their claims. It should be very clear that this terror campaign is not organic and if you're an actually rational and clear thinking person, it should make you seriously question the origin and nature of these groups and what they have to say and the policies they propose. We must not let terror cells corrupt and manipulate the American public and legal system with coordinated terror campaigns.